Uritsky:

The "average" decision of the Tr[otsko]g....

We are losing the [o]ltariat [of the] people.

Which is higher: losing the Estonian Republic or losing ("betraying") the m[e]aw[y]n[a]r[a]r[a]r[e] pro[o]l[h]etariat]?

Lenin's point of view is (as before) national, while ours is international.

"We do not risk falling off"....

"My hand will not rise to sign a lewd peace "2 ....

Tr[otsk]iy:

Probability of offensive 33 1/33

3in[ovvie]y:

...Weaken[s] in the 1st moment the internatz[ion] movement4...

Dzerzhinsky:

... "Capitulation"...5

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 5145 - autograph.

1The notes were made by Lenin at a meeting of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b) January 11 (24), 1918, when discussing the issue of "peace and war". At the meeting of the Central Committee with party workers on January 8 (21) January three points of view on this issue: 1) the conclusion of peace; 2) revolutionary war; 3) declaring the war terminated, demobilization of the army, peace not to sign. At the meeting of the Central Committee none of the points of view received a clear advantage, so the majority of participants agreed with Lenin's proposal - to delay the negotiations in every possible way (see: Minutes of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(b). August 1917 - February 1918. Moscow, 1958, pp. 167-173).

2 M.S.Uritsky supported L.D.Trotsky's point of view - "neither peace nor war". His statement - see Protocols, p. 170.

3L.D.Trotsky's speech - see Protocols..., p. 170-171. 170-171.

4V.I.Lenin has in mind the following words from the speech of G.E.Zinoviev: "...we are facing a heavy surgical operation, for by peace we will strengthen chauvinism in Germany and for a while weaken the movement everywhere in the West. And further on another prospect is visible - it is the demise of the socialist republic" (Protocols..., pp. 171-172).

5In the minutes of the Central Committee meeting it is recorded: "Tov. Dzerzhinsky declares that the signing of peace is the surrender of our whole program" (Protocols..., p. 172).